Escaped Thoughts

The point of marriage

“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

From the Sea, Into the Air

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Activating Your Brain's Healing Power

We are more likely to experience depression than our parents were.

Blame our automated, online world? How about the reduced physical effort we make to survive?

Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert finds compelling evidence that having to work hard for rewards significantly improves mood and prevents depression.

Mixing research from anthropology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, her theory suggests that physical effort directed toward tangible outcomes activates particular regions of the brain and builds resilience against the emotional emptiness and negative thinking associated with depression.

In other words, get out of your funk not by changing your mental activity and thoughts, but by physical activity.

She wrote Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power about her brain research into how using your hands-on crafts projects can be as beneficial to the body as taking psychoactive medication.

 

A poet is

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

It's All Related

sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

― Marilyn Monroe

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Where Have I Been?

On a desert and deserted island of my own making...

But now I am home and I will follow Charles Baudelaire's advice and

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

everyone becomes a poet

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

Perhaps all the dragons

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is,
in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet